Cork-extractor.



No. 702,00I. APatentdlune I0, 1902.

(Application led Oct. 28, 1901.)

(No Model.)

WLM/woes 5mm/nto@ `2o view of a cork-extractor embodying my inven- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERTH. HAM,` OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

coRK-ExTRAcToR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-No. 702,001, dated J' une 10, 1902.

' Appup'tion filed october 28,1901. serial No. 80,257. (No, motel.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT H. HAM, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, county of New York, State of New York, have 5 invented a certain new and useful Improvement in lCork-Extractors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to corkextractors,and has for its object to produce a collapsible Io cork-extractor which may be conveniently carried and which will retain the fork firmly in place when in use.

To these ends my invention consists in a corkextractor,the essential features of which will be hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have sh own a cork-extractor in which one form of my invention is embodied. Y In the drawings, Figure I is an isometric tion. Fig. II is a longitudinal section thereof, the fork being housed in the handle; and

Fig.l III is a side view of one portion of the -hollow handle-to wit, that portion in which the fork is carried.

In the drawings, a and a. represent hollow conoidal portions. The section a' is provided with a screw-thread on its reduced extremity,

and the section o. is internally screw-threaded,

3.o as at a2. It will be observed that when these two conoidal parts are screwed they together constitute a hollow handle.

claim, and desire to The section Va is provided with'slots I,

through which the arms b b of the fork or bow B extends. The'middle portion of the bow or fork B may be constituted by a swell c, s0 that the said swell will tit snugly within the handle when the parts are in position for use, as shown in Figs. I and III. e

In Fig. II, I have shown the cork-extractor collapsed-that.' is to say, the `fork. or bow stowed away within thel handle-and when the parts are in such position the Whole de-- vice can readily be carried in the pocket without any inconvenience.

Having described my invention, `what I secure by Letters Patent,

In a cork-extractor, the combination of a resilient bow or fork, a hollow handle embodying a plurality of open-ended hollow parts, the said open-ended hollow parts being adaptedv for engagement with each other, one of the said hollow parts being slotted to receive the arms of the bow or fork adapted to be alternately contained'within the said handle and to be fitted therein to extend from the said handle, the middle portion of the bow being adapted to form a bearing against the Y interior of the hollow handle, substantially as described.

HERBERT H. HAM.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. MORSE.;

MILAN DAY BARNES. 

